In a shocking development this week, Swedish health authorities have ruled that gender-based abortion is not illegal, and cannot be stopped.

This decision is horrifying but sadly inevitable in a country where abortion is legal on demand (up to 18 weeks in Sweden), which means that a woman can request abortion for any reason whatsoever.

The huge disgust that people have for abortion on gender grounds should prompt the complete rejection of any law which allows abortion to be a matter of individual choice.

The Swedish judgment, unpalatable as it is,  should at least alert us to the dangers that lie ahead for other European countries. As appalling as the situation is currently  in the UK,  our society likes to think that abortion on grounds of gender is illegal, hence the stories of Asian women travelling to India to abort baby girls. But the ProLife Alliance has already warned of the very real possibility that social sex selection abortions are taking place in the United Kingdom given the ease with which first trimester terminations are performed.

Yearly abortion figures are due to be published next week and we demand that the Department of Health undertake a thorough review of the practice of abortion in the United Kingdom, rather than continuing its current practice of withholding information about abortion from the public domain.

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